Live for nothing or Draw for something...

[LtPlissken]

zanna92 you should fear Gibson because he is drunk and mad and insane, and he conquered half of Scotland.
Thank you for visiting my SB.

Not a big update, just a little digital painting exercise.
Ghunkhar from the online game Bitefight:

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Digital painting exercise from photograph. The skull is my concept. Ahh
Blah; Blaaaaaah; aaaaaaaaaargggh; Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarhg!!!!

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Old Man. Pencils HB,B,2B-8B.
Took me about 8 hours to finish it.

[FightingSeraph]

Two things I would like to say:
A: You have improved quite a bit.
B: Your referenced drawings look much better than your non-referenced stuff although that is changing by all the progress that you have made.

[Corean]

Hey, things are lookin good in here. I like the rendering you did on that old man especially. For the digital portrait above, it looks like you're learning to use blocks of colour to shade/give dimension and that is good. Only crit I can give is to watch the direction of your brush strokes and try to make them flow more with the natural contours of the face. The black and red scheme for the skull concept goes together well. Really liking the contrast.

Keep it up and thank you for your pointers in my sketchbook.

[LtPlissken]

FightingSeraph thank you very much. Yes, I am still not at the level where I can draw successfully from my imagination.

coreanseoul thank you for your feed back. I am still a starter with digital art. Will work on improving. I will follow your SB.

Some more sketches and doodles:

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...and now let's continue this sketchbook:
here you can see more of my daily drawing exercises, mostly from references but I have to say now that there are more and more of my own ideas mixed in my work as we advance:

[ninyanernel]

i recommend studying bridgman, if you haven't already, for figure drawings. there are links for the books posted in some forum here..

thanks for visiting my sb, btw. keep on drawing!

[quackart]

hellou,

it has been told - refferenced works are better than non-refferenced... but thats totally normal... so what you need are studies (and it has been probably told too) especially figure drawings... than you can study details... i know it because im drowning in figure drawing too but it worths...

anyway i like that old man from nb 63 (i think its 63) ... good job... hard working is appreciated

so draw draw draw... you have a good start...

[LtPlissken]

People, thank you for viewing and for your support.
This next few drawings and sketches are drawn from references from this forum from various user's sketchbooks. I did not wrote down their names, I honestly hope that they will not mind if I use their great work to my daily exercise reference.

[Irishdrunk]

Hey, it's great to see lots of sketches. And i'm sure people would feel honored if you used their pieces for sketches. But don't make it plagiarism :p

My only critique are your figures. People have already suggested studying anatomy & figures. But to be more precise; some segments of your bodies just don't connect correctly. Just something to think about during your next sketches.

Keep it up! (Oh, btw. What happened to your digital stuff ;D )

[LtPlissken]

Thank you Irishdrunk.
I have to admit that I am a little off with digital art right now. I will make it up later. I am pencil oriented now.

[jatherip]

cooool amount of sketches, but how about some studies on faces? would help to improve you characters for sure!!

[LtPlissken]

jatherip thank you for visiting, I will study faces more.
I was reading Ron Tiner's book so I did one of his drawing, Fagin and tried to color it. I hope it looks relatively ok:

[LtPlissken]

Plissken is back with some badass sketches. Yeas baby!

[engelhardt]

Hi LtPlissken, your inprovement can be seen trough the sketchbook, but I think you should start doing some coloured stuff. Best is to start wigh reference.

[LtPlissken]

engelhardt thank you for following my SB,
Here is something colored, some digital art:

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I never stop practicing:

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The story goes on:

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Some photo manipulations:

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Started drawing from posemaniacs.com and did some digital figure training today.

[LtPlissken]

Some daily sketches, this time with a black pen, then there is good old Jesus and in the end Chuck Liddell of course.

[CavyWolfe]

Thanks for the visit.

I really like the studies you've got going, and the digital practices are nice. Keep at it!

[LtPlissken]

Thank you CavyWolfe.
This is an Elite Force Trooper concept, no reference used, done with 2B and mechanical pencil, after colored in PS:

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More daily sketches:

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A female portrait with 2B,3B and mechanical pencil and a color pencil study.

[Rotor]

I really like what you've got here and you can definately see improvement.
When making characters, try to put them in perspective and/or work on the values to give the characters mass and form. The ideas you've got here are really good but some of the characters have a certain flatness. Value studies with boxes, spheres and other simple forms will help you with this.
You also seem to have taken digital art pretty well, you've progressed quickly. I'd say push your values on digital art to give further emphasis to the pieces.
Keep on rocking, you'll be a champ one day.

[Rotor]

I really like what you've got here and you can definately see improvement.
When making characters, try to put them in perspective and/or work on the values to give the characters mass and form. The ideas you've got here are really good but some of the characters have a certain flatness. Value studies with boxes, spheres and other simple forms will help you with this.
You also seem to have taken digital art pretty well, you've progressed quickly. I'd say push your values on digital art to give further emphasis to the pieces.
Keep on rocking, you'll be a champ one day.

[SymbioticFusion]

Looks like you really working hard, I see lots of figure drawings, keep practicing anatomy but also perspective, understanding perspective is the base to draw everything, including figures. Keep the good work.

[LtPlissken]

Rotor & SymbioticFusion thank you very much for visiting and giving me advices. Unfortunately not many people visits my sketchbook lately and I get not much advices. I am so happy now that you left a comment
I will definitely work next on perspective and will work on values.

I will post now two comic book attempts that I did with ink about 10 years ago: